The last five days been working on getting lecture slides semi automatically into #anki.
For the first three days battling with #python in extracting the data from a 77 page PDF.
On the fourth day finally got the first complete PDF worth of lecture slides into Anki after 8 hours. Most of the time manual pattern matching and setting up a good enough data structure.
On the fifth day, got the second set of lecture slides which are only 44 pages and were decreased down to 12 pages and took 5 hours. Most of the time was converting the manual pattern matching from the fourth day into an automatic sequence and writing up documentation on how to reproduce.
After spending so much time in trying to semi automate the process, I have been questioning if it would have been faster to do it all manually. Hopefully the upcoming sets of slides will go much faster and plan to release the code in the next couple of days.
